From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)
Subject: Re: Discrete random with given distribution ?
Date: 14 Jun 2002 01:01:51 -0700
Date: 2002-06-14T08:01:52+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17cd177c.0206140001.507d1333@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D08C94B.A50AECFE@acm.org
> > F := FR.Random;
Jeffrey Carter:
> This can never return C. F <= 1.0, and for many generators, F < 1.0.
> Also, if F = 0.9, this returns A.
>
> I suspect you need
>
> F < Threshold (I)
I'm afraid this is not the main problem, since the probability of
F obtaining any value (-12.0, 0.6 or 1.0) is 0...
G.
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2002-06-13 12:10 Discrete random with given distribution ? Reinert Korsnes
2002-06-13 13:35 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-13 12:49 ` Reinert Korsnes
2002-06-13 14:25 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-13 16:10 ` Kevin Rigotti
2002-06-13 16:33 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-13 22:23 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 8:01 ` Gautier [this message]
2002-06-13 18:01 ` tmoran
2002-06-14 7:20 ` Reinert Korsnes
2002-06-14 18:49 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 21:12 ` tmoran
2002-06-16 22:12 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-17 5:01 ` tmoran
2002-06-17 16:15 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-17 18:17 ` tmoran
2002-06-18 19:22 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-19 0:34 ` tmoran
2002-06-19 0:53 ` tmoran
2002-06-19 5:13 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-14 10:01 ` Gautier
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2002-06-14 23:10 ` tmoran
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